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COMPAS Orion is a multi-function community hub providing a focal point and facilities to foster greater local community activity and bring residents, the local business community, and smaller organisations together to improve the quality of life in their areas.

The following projects currently take place at Orion:

Czech and Slovak language class

English language class

Creative literacy for children

Library

Coffee morning

Advice service

Mentoring of young people

Exhibition of drawings of Slovak Roma children from Jarovnice in Slovakia

COMPAS has recently received a donation of Czech books from the BCHA (British Czech and Slovak Association). We would like to thank to BCHA (particularly to Mr and Mrs Peacock) for this generous collection of books. The books are now available for hire at the CS Library, located at 337, Lincoln Road in Peterborough. There are books from Karel Capek, Alois Jirasek, Jaroslav Hasek, Vitezslav Nezval, Vaclav Ctvrtek and others.

COMPAS, along with other Czech and Slovak associations from across the UK, have been invited by His Excellency, Mr. Libor Sečka, Ambassador of the Czech Republic and His Excellency, Mr. Ľubomír Rehák, Ambassador of Slovakia to the traditional Spring Celebration Majáles at the Czech and Slovak Embassies in London, on the 18th May 2018 at 4pm.

Majáles is a spring celebration and a traditional student festival organised each May in the countries of Central Europe. The Embassies of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in London used this opportunity to also commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1918 founding of Czechoslovakia and the recognition of the Czechoslovak National Council by the British government.

COMPAS has recently received a very generous collection of art work, painted by Roma people living in Jarovnice village. The paintings came from ZS Jarovnice School, where Roma children are encouraged by their teacher Jan Sajko and his TA Martin Kaleja to express their ethnicity and culture in paintings.

Some of the art work is temporarily exhibited at the Advice Centre at 337, Lincoln Road in Peterborough. Anyone interested to come to see the beautiful collection can book an appointment by e-mail (contact@compas.org.uk).

In January 2018, COMPAS had been awarded with a financial support from the Cambridgeshire Police & Crime Commissioner Jason Ablewhite. The funding will allow COMPAS to engage young people and to promote volunteering especially among the most vulnerable and marginalised communities.

The funding comes from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Youth Funds, which aims to engage young people in positive activities in their communities to reduce vulnerability, divert from criminal activity and encourage positive engagement and participation.

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